TUGZip

So, what’s going on you might ask. First of all, I have released a new version TUGZip (3.5). It fixes some of the annoying bugs that users have reported in the forums and by mail. You can grab it from the downloads section.

As you can see, the website has been updated, unfortunately not to indicate a new era of development on TUGZip but rather the opposite. Unfortunately I am no longer able to support and work on TUGZip as much as I want, I am sure most of you already realized.

I hope to be able to continue developing TUGZip 4 at some time, but for now the development is suspended.

I want to thank everyone for their support all this time, especially everyone providing help in the forums. I also want to apologize for not being able to answer all e-mails, I am receiving more than I can handle. I will try to read through the e-mails I get, but I can’t promise that I’ll answer. I hope you understand this.

I have updated TUGZip to fix the problem with Windows Update KB925902. You may download the new installation package or just the updated TUGZip.exe.

Unfortunately the future of TUGZip does not look very bright at the moment. I need to figure out what to do. Also sorry for the lack of e-mail support lateley, I am to busy to answer all e-mails, please try to search the forum for help instead.

Marios Anagnostopoulos has now finished his Greek translation of TUGZip, grab it here. Good job!

I would also like to clearify one thing. It appears that spam is beeing send from what appears to be my e-mail address, of course this is not the case. These e-mails are not beeing sent by me, they’re beeing sent from someone who fakes my e-mail adress.

Achim Calin has put together a great translation package for Romanian users. It contains installation instructions and two Romanian translations, one with Romanian diacritics and one without. The package can be downloaded from here.

TUGZip 3.4 is now available. Updating is recomended for all previous versions of TUGZip. You may download the new version from the download section or by using the web-update tool (TUGZip 3.3 users only).

Gints Erglis has translated TUGZip into Latvian, thanks! The translation can be found in the translations section.

I am back in town and has replied to most of my e-mails. The Japanese, French, Italian, Portugues(br) and Portugues(pt) translations has been updated for TUGZip 3.3. compatibility. There are also three new languages available: Bulgarian by Stoyan Bonkov, Estonian by Aivo Kuhlberg and Slovenian by Jadran Rudec. A few new download mirrors has also been added. Thanks!

My plan was to include the latest translations in the setup package but due the lack of time I just uploaded them to the server. The German, Hungarian, Chinese (traditional) and Swedish translations are updated and available.

I will be out of town for about one and a half month. I’ll check my inbox when I can access internet to update the mirrors and translations.

lazy_dog has made a Japanese translation of TUGZip as well as two patches for better unicode support. The package can be downloaded here.

I spend most my time working on TUGZip 4, but I think I might release a last update on TUGZip 3 in the near future. Mostly to correct some bugs. A few new features might be included, but nothing major.

Yet another fast mirror has been added to the download section. Thanks!

Sorry for the lack of updates lateley. I have been working on TUGZip 4? which pretty much will be written from scratch since my goal is to make TUGZip open source and maybe portable to other platforms (if it doesn’t affect the performance).

Great news today! There are two new translations of TUGZip available, Slovak and Catalan. The Polish translation has been updated for TUGZip 3.2 compatibility. All translations are available at this page.

The plug-in SDK should have been released by now, but I have been working on the next version TUGZip rather than finishing the documentation. I will try to finish the SDK as soon as possible.

The Czech, Dutch and Chinese (traditional) translations has been updated for TUGZip 3.2 compatibility. Also a few mirrors have been updated with version 3.2 downloads, and Softpedia has sponsored with yet another one. Thanks!

I was hoping to be able to release the SDK today, but I need to work a little more on it before it’s finished.

Many updates today, the Chinese (traditional) translation has been updated for version 3.1 compatibility.

TUGZip 3.2 has been released! You can see a list of what’s new in version 3.2 here. If you have translated TUGZip 3 there are are some updates needed on your translation for full 3.2 compatibility, please see this page. The German and Swedish translations are already version 3.2 compatible.

I will also try to complete the plugin SDK, and hopefully upload it tonight or tomorrow.

Update1: It seems that my current host doesn’t allow me to run the newsletter script utility all e-mails are send. Most of the subscribers didn’t get their e-mail. If anyone has any good (and free) newsletter script to recommend which (if possible) takes care of the timeout problem, please let me know.

Update2: Wicky Rampersad has sent me his Dutch translation of TUGZip, which is available at the translations section. Thanks!

I have made some updates and uploaded a new installation under the same name as version 3.1. It’s only a minor update which removes an error message which is shown when compressing CAB and LZH archives on some systems.

Version 3.1 of TUGZip is now released. Take a look here to see what’s new. If you have translated TUGZip 3 there are some updates needed on your translations for full 3.1 compatibility, please see this page. Please make sure to uninstall previous versions of TUGZip before installing 3.1, and don’t forget to restart your system if needed. If you are using any external plugins, please remove them from the plugins directory. These plugins are no longer needed in TUGZip 3.1.

(Update) My current host doesn’t seem to be able to handle all the traffic, so they restricted my free traffic account. Because of this I had to remove all local server downloads and move the TUGZip 3.1 installation file to a very fast and reliable server.

I had some troubles sending out all newsletters, there was some kind of timeout error. I hope this will be fixed soon.

A Chinese (traditional) translation is available. Actually there are two traditional Chinese translations available. The second translator send his translations to me before I had uploaded the first one. The Swedish translation has also been updated, spelling mistakes has been corrected.

My current host will move its servers to a new server room in another city where they can supply more bandwidth etc. Because of that, this website will be down from Sunday evening to Monday morning.

The new plugins are now uploaded as promised. You can find them here. Gabriel have updated the Hungarian translation to support version 3. You can download it from here or by using the automatic language update tool.

Finally some good news for those of you who have been waiting for TUGZip 3 to be released. Go to the download section and download the latest version. Please make sure that TUGZip 2 is completely uninstalled before installing version 3.

I will update the plugins section later with instructions on how to add e.g. RAR and ACE compression support.

There seems to be a problem with my current ISP’s SMTP server. It looks like some e-mail did not reach their targets. I should have answered to all my e-mails at this moment so if you haven’t got a reply, please send your e-mail again. Even if you sent it weeks ago.

It has been rather quiet lately so I better tell you what’s going on. I am currently working on beta 3 of TUGZip 3 which will hopefully be the last. At the moment I am implementing the translation system and I will upload the tools necessary to translate TUGZip 3 as fast as possible.

There are a few new translations available that I forgot to mention yesterday. Check them out on the translation section. I have now replied to all e-mails, but there are still some sections in the forum that I have to read through.

It’s been quite lately. I have been busy with a few other things in my life. I am currently working on the next version of TUGZip. I have a few more e-mails to answer and some posts in the forum. That’s all for today!

As you may have noticed the forums are not working properly. I will try to fix it as soon as I can, I am quite busy working on TUGZip at the moment. Today TUGZip received it’s 3rd award. 5 stars at Completely Free Software.

At last I want to thank all the people who are sending in their comments/bugreports on TUGZip V2. Your help is really appreciated!

The forums are redesigned and back online. The development progress will be constantly updated and screenshots etc will be posted in the forum. Please feel free to enter the forums and post your comments/ideas.

This day started bad, when i started my computer this morning I heard a strange sound. My primary harddrive sounded very bad and my mainboard couldn’t find it. I tried the harddrive in my server but the same problem appeared on that machine. I realized that the harddrive was broken so I went to by a new one, luckily I make backups regularly so I didn’t lose TUGZip.